{"id":2446137,"date":"2019-07-09T08:40:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T14:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=856784"},"modified":"2019-07-09T08:40:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T14:40:11","slug":"megan-thee-stallion-turns-up-the-heat-on-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/megan-thee-stallion-turns-up-the-heat-on-kimmel\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Thee Stallion Turns Up the Heat on \u2018Kimmel\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MeganTheeStallionKimmel.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/megan-thee-stallion\/\" id=\"auto-tag_megan-thee-stallion\" data-tag=\"megan-thee-stallion\">Megan Thee Stallion<\/a> turned up the heat during her performance on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jimmy-kimmel-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-kimmel-live\" data-tag=\"jimmy-kimmel-live\">Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a><\/em> on Monday. Bathed in red light with a backdrop that included fire imagery and a smoke-filled stage, the rapper and her dancers repped her Houston hometown, sporting the city\u2019s name on their shirts for her first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/late-night-tv\/\" id=\"auto-tag_late-night-tv\" data-tag=\"late-night-tv\">late-night TV<\/a> appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Her medley included her latest single, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/megan-thee-stallion-realer-video-watch-838556\/\">Realer<\/a>,\u201d from her debut album, <em>Fever<\/em>, which dropped in May along with \u201cBig Ole Freak\u201d from 2018\u2019s breakthrough EP, <em>Tina Snow<\/em>. Flanked by video screens that featured stallions and cars that bumped along to the beat, Megan Thee Stallion and her dancers twerked and grooved as she rapped, augmented by two backup singers.<\/p>\n<p>Her performance was indicative of Megan\u2019s approach to music. As&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/megan-thee-stallion-freestyle-808378\/\">she told&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>, Houston plays a prominent part. \u201cI feel like I have to put on for my city, because we have so many legends and so many greats,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I don\u2019t feel like we ever really had a female rapper come from Houston or Texas&nbsp;and shut shit down. So that\u2019s where I\u2019m coming from with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Megan will serve as a special guest on select dates during Meek Mill and Future\u2019s co-headlining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/meek-mill-future-co-headlining-u-s-legendary-nights-tour-dates-849837\/\">Legendary Nights Tour<\/a>, which kicks off on August 28th in St. Louis, Missouri at Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/megan-thee-stallion-performs-realer-big-ole-freak-kimmel-watch-856784\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Thee Stallion turned up the heat during her performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday. Bathed in red light with a backdrop that included fire imagery and a smoke-filled stage, the rapper and her dancers repped her Houston hometown, sporting the city\u2019s name on their shirts for her first late-night TV appearance. Her medley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 03:22:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}